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    2 Chronicles 33

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    Manasseh is dragged to Babylon with a hook in his nose, prays in his distress, and is brought back to Jerusalem as king—an astonishing change of itinerary, if not of scenery.

    A king fills the temple with rivalsvv. 1–10

    Manasseh begins a fifty-five-year reign by rebuilding what Hezekiah had demolished, then proceeds to furnish the temple with altars to the host of heaven. He sacrifices his sons in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, consults every sort of occult practitioner named in the account, and sets his carved image in the house of God. The result is not merely private wickedness: Judah and Jerusalem are led astray into evil exceeding that of the nations driven out before them. The LORD speaks, and nobody listens—a most unproductive audience.

    The hook, the prayer, and the returnvv. 11–19

    The answer to the ignored warning arrives in military form. Assyrian commanders capture Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, fasten him in bronze, and take him to Babylon. In distress, he seeks the LORD and humbles himself; the plea is heard, and the king is returned to Jerusalem and his kingdom. After that, Manasseh removes the foreign gods and idols, throws the temple furnishings outside the city, rebuilds the wall from west of Gihon to the Fish Gate around Ophel, and restores the altar. Judah still uses the high places, though now for the LORD alone, which is a curious sort of improvement: the old platforms remain, but their clientele has changed.

    A short reign and a palace conspiracyvv. 20–25

    Manasseh rests with his fathers and is buried at his palace; Amon takes the throne. Amon repeats his father's idolatry but not his humility, and the account says that he increases his guilt. His servants then conspire and kill him in the palace. The people of the land kill the conspirators in turn and make Josiah king, so the succession arrives by way of a very brisk exchange of palace violence.

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    1. 2 Chr 33:1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.

    2. 2 Chr 33:2And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

    3. 2 Chr 33:3For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

    4. 2 Chr 33:4Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”

    5. 2 Chr 33:5In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.

    6. 2 Chr 33:6He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

    7. 2 Chr 33:7Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

    8. 2 Chr 33:8I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”

    9. 2 Chr 33:9So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

    10. 2 Chr 33:10And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.

    11. 2 Chr 33:11So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

    12. 2 Chr 33:12And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.

    13. 2 Chr 33:13And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition. So He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.

    14. 2 Chr 33:14After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

    15. 2 Chr 33:15He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.

    16. 2 Chr 33:16Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and he told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.

    17. 2 Chr 33:17Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

    18. 2 Chr 33:18As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, they are indeed written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

    19. 2 Chr 33:19His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.

    20. 2 Chr 33:20And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried at his palace. And his son Amon reigned in his place.

    21. 2 Chr 33:21Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.

    22. 2 Chr 33:22And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,

    23. 2 Chr 33:23but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.

    24. 2 Chr 33:24Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed him in his palace.

    25. 2 Chr 33:25But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

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    • 12Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
    • 122 Chronicles 32:26Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.
    • 12Psalms 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
    • 3Deuteronomy 16:21Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
    • 131 Chronicles 5:20And because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies, and the Hagrites and all their allies were delivered into their hands. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers.
    • 3Deuteronomy 17:3and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—
    • 52 Chronicles 4:9He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors, and he overlaid the doors with bronze.
    • 11Deuteronomy 28:36The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
    • 232 Chronicles 33:12And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
    • 22 Chronicles 28:3Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
    • 32 Chronicles 31:1When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.
    • 42 Chronicles 7:16For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
    • 82 Samuel 7:10And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning
    • 12Luke 18:14–15I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
    • 13Ezra 8:23So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He granted our request.
    • 13Daniel 4:25You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.

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